Hackers in ‘white hats’ join effort to thwart the bad guys

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans

Hackers in ‘white hats’ join effort to thwart the bad guys

High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. Commuters in the Israeli port city of Haifa fumed during a particularly tedious traffic jam two years ago, never guessing that the logjam was caused not by an accident or some other relatively customary event — but reportedly by cyber attack. It shut the city’s Carmel tunnel for eight hours, with the Associated Press later reporting a cyber attack, although the authorities never confirmed this. A hacker used a “Trojan horse” — a malicious computer programme — to shut down the security cameras monitoring the tunnel, the report said. High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. As transport networks — from cars to planes to trains — connect to the internet in hundreds of ways, hackers have found ways to disrupt the arteries of major cities. A single flaw in one […]

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